tomb

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A grave or other place of burial.

n. A vault or chamber for burial of the dead.

n. A monument commemorating the dead.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.

v. To bury.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.

n. A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.

n. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.

transitive v. To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To bury; inter; intomb.

n. An excavation in earth or rock, intended to receive the dead body of a human being; a grave; also, a chamber or vault formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, or wholly above ground, for the reception of the dead, whether plain, or decorated by means of architecture, sculpture, etc.; a mausoleum; a sarcophagus. See also cuts under catacomb, Lycian, and altar-tomb.

n. A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead; any sepulchral structure; a cenotaph.

Citium pay particular honor to a certain tomb which they call the tomb of Cimon, according to Nausicrates the rhetorician, who states that in a time of famine, when the crops of their land all failed, they sent to the oracle, which commanded them not to forget Cimon, but give him the honors of a superior being.